I've given up on being able to use some of those RealTrack pianos because of that. I love the Liverpool piano, but the way it jumps registers drives me batty - I really wish there were MIDI versions of all these piano tracks, because it would be so easy to fix in a MIDI editor. I've probably heard the prior mix, and so I've already been spoiled.
The drum seems out of place - it seems "disembodied" and unreal. The mix isn't quite my cup of tea, but that's probably just me. It's a lovely song, good write, well sung. It took multiple clicks before the song played. I really appreciate it.Įdited by JoanneCooper ( 04/25/18 02:52 AM) Sergio, Trevor,Deryk, Rob, Robert,Clifton, Tano Music, Bob, Shigeki, PeterF, Hugh, Dani and Scott: Thank you each for commenting and encouraging on the song. The harmonies are made using a "cheating" technique described here. Here is a link to my original mix but I think the vocal on this one was far to way up front. Thanks so much for your feeback on the mix and the piano track. I am sure they want to get those all ironed out before embarking on a massive roll out.ĭavid. They are still in "Beta" and respond that there are "some difficulties" with the streaming but that doesn't really help me! Anyway. Sorry you are having problems streaming on the site. "It would be very beneficial if people could complete their profiles and upload one release to have a chance to be verified"ĭavid, Bud and Janice and RichMac. So I yelled back in his language, you know, 'Meow-meow-meow!' When I changed to coaxing tones, he stopped yelling and went belly up.UPDATE: For those who have been trying to sign-up to Musicoin, they have given me an extra 20 invites so my referral link should be working again.
"When I found him, he just yelled at me, almost hyperventilating by telling me off. Mitchell relates, "It took me 17 days to write this song, and the night I finished it, my amazing little mancat appeared in a neighbor's yard and I retrieved him. The song's delicate sounds mimic what she heard: the rustling of leaves, bird songs, the drone from a distant freeway. Night after night, Mitchell called him from her yard and anxiously waited. Then she grabbed him by the stump of his tail and scruff of his neck, held him at arm's length and marched him outdoors. Incensed by the cat's habit of piddling on floors, Mitchell finally cracked, scolding ,"If you're going to act like an animal, you're going to live like one!" The absence of that ritual left a big hole." He'd give me these deep, long looks and chew on my hair while I rubbed his head. "He's a real fraidy-cat and very devoted to me. "I call him Man From Mars because he's a little lavender lion who looks like an alien and walks on his hind legs as an expression of affection for me," she says of the yellow-eyed Abyssinian mix. Nietzsche, by her account, is quite a character himself. "The grief that I felt in his absence coincided with the grief of the character in the movie," she says. She reconsidered after her beloved tomcat Nietzsche (seen in Mitchell's self-portrait on the cover of Taming the Tiger) ran away from home. On Man From Mars, a lament about a loved one who's abandoned her, Joni Mitchell pines,"There is no center to my life now, no grace in my heart." At first, she had declined a request to pen a mournful tune for the Grace of My Heart soundtrack, insisting, "I'm not a hack.